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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Yesterday when I was catching up on reading last week's International Herald Tribunes, (the real paper kind,) I came across news of a horrendous, nightmare of an article about a school trip bus crash that killed or seriously injured almost all of the fifty-two (52) people who had been on the bus.

Twenty-two children and six adults, including the two drivers, died in the accident. Another 24 were injured, including three critically.
The children -- aged around 12 -- were returning home to Belgium from a skiing trip. The bus, which was carrying 52 people, was one of three hired by a Christian group.
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It is believed that the driver was changing a DVD when he lost control/concentration for that fatal second.

Drivers are too busy concentrating on other tasks, like dialing phones and sending/reading messages to drive safely.

Another problem is insufficient sleep, which seriously affects one's concentration, patience and impulsively. I did a study on that when I was getting my teachers license. The increase, in recent decades in the amount of students showing symptoms of ADD/HD is most probably due to insufficient sleep. The effects of insufficient sleep are identical to the primary neurological syndrome of ADD/HD. And now, when most of the northern hemisphere is going Daylight Savings, the situation will only get worse. The longer the sun is shining the later people go to sleep.